Simone de Beauvoir:

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth was undoubtedly at the bottom of my search for an autonomous existence.

— Simone de Beauvoir Modern

Feminist existentialism

Context

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

Date / Period

1958

Source

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